Comments on: Garner’s Usage Tip of the Day: Partakehttp://blog.oup.com/2010/04/partake/
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Fri, 29 Jun 2012 11:06:15 +0000http://blog.oup.com/?p=8737#comment-280766What would you say of its use in the following sentence –

He was a visionary who realised that if Indians had to partake of their growing economy, families needed to be planned and healthy.

Would you say the way the word has been used is old fashioned?

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Fri, 30 Apr 2010 17:14:23 +0000http://blog.oup.com/?p=8737#comment-157504Back in my younger days, we would ask people, “do you partake?” while offering them whatever libation or other vice we happened to be partaking in at the time. It worked well for so many situations; alcohol, cigarettes, espresso drinks, etc.

It seems to me that this is both a valid usage of the word and a good example to demonstrate the flexibility and ever-changing landscape of our language. Whenever we think we have found an unchangeable rule some kid who hasn’t heard of the rule goes and breaks it.